Battlefield Vietnam takes the franchise to the next level with vehicular warfare. Control the sky and the land in larger maps, 60's modern tanks, planes, helicoptors, and new character classes. Battle on either side in the Vienamese war among treacherous locations like Ho Chi Min trail, Hue, Quang Tri and many more.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Battlefield Vietnam in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the retail version of Battlefield Vietnam. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 17.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 1.8.4

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 1.8.4
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Wine 1.8.4 is installed and you can close this window

Copy Disks to folder

Create a new folder on your Desktop
Copy everything from the first Disk
Copy the .cab files from the rest of the Disks


PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install


Click "Install a non-listed program"


Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next


Name your virtual drive: battlefieldvietnam
Click Next


Check all three options:

• Use another version of Wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next


Select Wine 1.8.4
Click Next


Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next


Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click Apply


Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK


Note: Virtual Desktop is also helpful when you have mouse or screen related issues.

PlayOnLinux Packages (DLL's, Components, Libraries)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next


Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Installation

Select "Select another file"
Click Next


Click Browse

Navigate to the new folder on your Desktop
Select "Setup.exe"
Click Open


Click Next again

Click OK


Click Next


Check the the first two:

• Battlefield Vietnam Game
• PunkBuster for Battlefield Vietnam

Click Next


Enter the KEY
Click Next


Check "No, install GameSpy Arcade later"
Click Next


Click Next again


Uncheck "View the readme file"
Uncheck "Create shortcut to..."
Click Finish


Click OK


Click "Register Later"


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "bfvietnam.exe"
Click Next


Name your shortcut: Battlefield Vietnam
Click Next


Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next


PlayOnLinux Configure

Select "Battlefield Vietnam"
Click Configure


General Tab
Wine version: 1.8.4


Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine

Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses


Launching Battlefield Vietnam

The highest resolution Battlefield Vietnam can set is 1280x960
I reccomend setting your Linux Desktop to this resolution first.

Select "Battlefield Vietnam"
Click Run


Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization

Click options


Click Video


Select a preset

Adjust:

• Resolution
• Graphics Quality
• Geometry Quality
• Texture Quality
• Lightmaps
• Shadows
• Gamma Control
• Contrast
• Brightness

Click Save


Note: You won't immediately see the result of the changes. They will happen when you load a map.

Conclusion:
Once I set my Desktop resolution to 1280x960 I was able to play the game fullscreen. The menu is 800x600 and can appear really small, but after loading a level everything looked great and ran great. I also didn't need to install any patches because I was using the Redux Retail versions. No Mods were tested.

Gameplay Video:


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